SteveD

Can XBOX360 be made to connect to sagetv as a client without the use of playon

That would be fine, I have Athlon 64x2 5400 WinXp with 4gig of ram. I think it will have more than enough horsespower to do the transcoding. Right I can stream sd to 3 mediamvp, comskip, and watch live tv on the sagetv server at the sage time with no hiccups.


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Athlon 64x2 5400 WinXp Pro ATI HD 2400 HDMI 30g SSD 4gig ram Haup 250MCE PVR150 USB audiogy optical output SageTV Server Beta 6.5.7 in serviceMode. Client active on server 50" Samsung Plasma. 3x MediaMVP.Storage: USB 500 Gig WD, 2.5 terabyte unraid server, 1gig network, Blueray Dvd w/ Powerdvd, Webserver, 5.1 Panasonic Amp. SageMC w/netflix stv

Steve,

The MediaMVP can not play HD. The OTA file will be transcoded* by SageTV to an SD resolution. The maximum resolution the MediaMVP supports is 720x480 MPEG-2 (DVD Quality). So you need a powerful server to do that. I'm not sure how much horsepower is needed, but I would suggest a fast Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, Phenom X3, X4, Phenom-II or Core I7. Some of those may be overkill.

*Transcode: Real time video conversion.